There is an option to make one of these disks. You right click A drive in
Explorer, then choose FORMAT and there is an option to create a DOS boot
disk. I didn't analyze the floppy in detail but it doesn't have a binary
MSDOS.SYS file like DOS 6.22. It is like a Win98 MSDOS.SYS file. It is a
text file. The dates on the various files are 6-8-2000.
So I guess it is basically COMMAND.COM and IO.SYS from Win98.
Thank you for the info. It is helpful information.
Bill S.
Tim Slattery said:
There's no DOS in XP. There is a 32-bit command console. It runs
32-bit console commands, many of which are very much like their old
DOS counterparts. Many of them have additional options. And console
programs scan do anything that a Windows GUI program can do, even open
windows.
You can get a list of built-in commands by opening a console window
and typing "help" (no quotes, of course). Then find out about each
program by typing its name followed by "/?". For example, to get all
the options for the "dir" command, type
dir /?
And of course you should look at the web page that Larry pointed to.
As for your bootup disk: what is that? How did you make it?
Actually, it's the equivelant to a MS WinMe boot diskette. If you
create the diskette in XP, boot to the disk, and type 'ver' -- it says
it's Millenium Edition.
So, if you want to expand the capabilities of the boot disk, you need a
Me system to copy the dos utilities from (or extract them from the CABs
if you're lucky enough.
I actually use the XP/Me boot disks to reimage computers at home -- I
have a modular floppy disk that either boots:
1) Clean -- nothing loaded except the virgin *.SYS files to give me a
command prompt
2) Standard DOS tools (which are loaded into a ramdisk) -- but no networking
3) MS Networking ( which inherits the standard dos tools ) -- you'll
need to know what NIC is in the system before telling the menu to boot
to the networking ability. I have ~6 NICs I can run and still have room
for a few more!
I would share it, lacking the system files (which all y'all have). I
don't check this NG often, but I can make them available eventually. I
don't check the email address either, too much spam between the legit
mail. Post here if anybody's interested -- I'll get it online and let
y'all hack at it. Documentation isn't made (yet, don't know when it
will be).
Enjoy, everyone.